VP BINAY CONDEMNS THREATS TO PAG-IBIG OFFICIAL WHO FILED CASE AGAINST GLOBE ASIATIQUE

Vice President Jejomar C. Binay condemned the threats received by an official of the Home Development Mutual Fund (Pag-IBIG) who filed the case against Globe Asiatique (GA).

Binay said that Pag-IBIG Deputy CEO Emma Faria, one of the signatories in the complaint against GA, received threats to her life sent through text messages.

“I condemn this act in the strongest possible terms. I urge the PNP and the NBI to take immediate steps to protect Emma Faria and unmask those behind these threats,” Binay said.

According to Binay, Faria received her first death threat the first time that the Department of Justice (DOJ) issued the decision against GA. She received another one after the Court of Appeals (CA) reversed the Temporary Restraining Order issued against Pag-IBIG.

Last week, the CA allowed the filing of syndicated estafa charges against Delfin Lee and his co-accused. This was after Judge Rolando Mislang of Pasig Regional Trial Court Branch 167 issued a preliminary injunction stopping the DoJ from filing the information for syndicated estafa against Lee, his son Dexter and three others in September last year.

The DOJ had previously recommended the filing of syndicated estafa charges against Lee and several others after an investigation ordered by Binay revealed that GA used “ghost borrowers” and fake documents to obtain over P6.5 billion in loans from Pag-IBIG.

Binay said they will continue to “vigilantly monitor” the progress of the case against Lee. He also said that the threats will not deter Pag-IBIG from continuing with the case against GA.

“We will continue to vigilantly monitor the case and assist the Department of Justice in whatever possible way to ensure that Delfin Lee and his co-accused will face justice,” he added.

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